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Color in spirits olivaceous, densely dusted everywhere except on 

 belly with rather coarse dark specks; a lateral row of obscure, irregu- 

 larh' formed, or more or less broken dusk}^ spots, each nearly as large 

 as eye; a dark humoral spot of rectangular form situated in a pit-like 

 depression; belly pale, whitish; dorsal and caudal finely specked with 

 dusky; other fins plain; no large tin spots or blotches. 



This species is related to Lefua nil'konis (Jordan and Fowler), differ 

 ing from it, however, in its much smaller scales, shorter ventral fins, 

 and in its coloration, there being no caudal blotch. 



Known from three specimens li to If inches long from a stream 

 near Nagaoka, in Echigo, Japan, on the northwestern part of the island 

 of Hondo. 



The type is Cat. No. 20164, Stanford University. A cotype is in 

 the U. S. National Museum. 



{Echigo^ a province in Japan). 



Family AGONID.F:. 



2. PALLASINA ERYNGIA Jordan and Richardson, new species. 



Head 4.2 in length without caudal; depth 3.50 in head; width of 

 body in front of soft dorsal, where body is not subject to distention, 

 27.5 in length without caudal; D. VI-8; A. 10; P. 11; eye 2.5 in 

 snout; interorbital space 2 in diameter of orl)it; nose 2.1 in head; 

 barbel twice head; plates in lateral line 50; between dorsals 12; 

 between ventrals and anal 15. 



Fig. 2.— Pallasina eryngia. 



Body completely encased in an armor of bony plates, as in P. hai'hata 

 (Steindachner); plates of the dorsal and ventral edges with low keels 

 which terminate behind in a short spine; breast with a central plate 

 larger than the rest, surrounded by smaller plates which lie between 

 it and the bounding pectoral edge; all the plates with radial striations 

 proceeding from a central umbo or from the point of the keel; a sub- 

 orbital row of small, thin plates with radiating stria?; angle of opercu- 

 lum and preoperculum each with a short spine ; jaws with fine awl-shaped 

 teeth in narrow bands. 



Spinous a little higher than soft dorsal, its longest spine 2.(3 in head; 

 origin of anal barely in front of base of first dorsal; pectorals reach- 

 ing slightly past front of first dorsal; ventrals (in male) 3.25 in head. 



Color of upper parts in alcohol brownish, specked very finely and 

 densely with darker; a rather sharp line, coinciding with the keels of 



